Rolls-Royce RB211
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Oct 9, 2026
JeffHOST
Up two steps and down two steps at a time with the stairs.
JeffHOST
I would love to know how many quarts of oil I put in those big, beautiful Rolls-Royce RB211 engines.
JeffHOST
Yet, as busy as it was, we always made time for a chat.
JeffHOST
For 34 years, the Gander Area Chamber of Commerce, G-A-C-C, has commissioned special aviation coins to... each year to celebrate Gander's long and rich aviation heritage.
Jonathan McDonaldGUEST
And then you've got the current standard, which is definitely a kind of benchmark aircraft, the Boeing 777F, and they've delivered well over, I think it's 350 aircraft or examples of those.
Jonathan McDonaldGUEST
And, you know, in that twin engine sector, that aircraft has kind of had this monopolistic position, really, you know, in terms of being that only new production freight are available.
Jonathan McDonaldGUEST
Yes, of course, there are the converted 777-300ERSF, the BEDEC product, and now the 200LRMF, which is the Mammoth product, which has recently been certified and entering service on DHL routes.
Jonathan McDonaldGUEST
But at the end of the day, these are all Boeing products.
Jonathan McDonaldGUEST
But look, we're talking about 25 aircraft of FedEx, maybe three with Western Global.
Jonathan McDonaldGUEST
certainly the fedex aircraft will be retired by 2032 or the likelihood is so you're talking about a very diminishing fleet so in terms of the you know the majority fleet it's very very much a boeing area you know this this large high capacity or so far has been so obviously the presence of having the A350F as an alternate Airbus product is very, very significant because it's going to stimulate severe competition or noteworthy competition for Boeing.
Jonathan McDonaldGUEST
So, yeah, the Boeing 777F has long since been the kind of benchmark twin-engine aircraft, and it's performed very, very well.
Jonathan McDonaldGUEST
It's always displayed strong values in lease rates.
Kevin CameronHOST
When it was all done carefully, there were even greater gains.
Kevin CameronHOST
It was a, this is the RB211 engine, by the way.
Kevin CameronHOST
It was a huge step forward in large engine fan engine performance.
Kevin CameronHOST
And one of the problems that may have contributed to the failure of the Harley Davidson VR Superbike to perform well is that once engineering got in charge of this project, they did what they had longed to do from the beginning, which was to apply automotive methods.
Kevin CameronHOST
Divide the entire undertaking into elements and have a committee in charge of developing each element.
Kevin CameronHOST
And then later, we'll put them together and see if we have a motorcycle.
Kevin CameronHOST
So in essence, they may have repeated the errors of the RB211 in not integrating the various elements of the design to work well together from the beginning I don't know if that's true but some have suggested it may be this is something that plagues large organizations and it is why when Lockheed were given a huge project they assigned very few engineers to it Not 800.
Kevin CameronHOST
We'll put 800 engineers on it.